Well, I want to say happy Mother's Day to mothers all over the United States and to my own mother, who I hope is watching this. But I also hope that mothers know everywhere how much - especially the mothers of our deployed troops, how much the people of the United States stand with them and how many prayers are said for our troops and for their families.

Everywhere I go, people tell me that, that they're praying for them and they want the very, very best for them. And so I want them to know that.

I also want them to know that their loved ones are performing a wonderful task. The idea of being able to have a democracy in Iraq for three - for Iraq to have had three huge elections where millions of people showed up even though there were threats of violence.

Iraq is trying to build its government right now, and I think if it's successful, which I truly believe it will be, that Iraq will end up being a beacon of hope, a beacon of democracy in the Middle East.

In Afghanistan, women can walk outside their doors now, girls can go to school, and girls and women in Afghanistan are so hungry for education that most schools have three schedules, with little kids going in the morning, and older children going in the afternoon, and then their parents going to school at night.

So those are huge accomplishments that we have been able to make as Americans because of our troops. So I want to thank all the mothers around the country, too, for their love and their strong support for their children everywhere, whether their children are in the military or not.